"I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old."
Read quote
6 likes
People quotes
People
100.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to People
Browse quotes that often appear alongside people — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
People quotes (page 495 of 5018)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it."
Read quote
6 likes
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that."
Read quote
6 likes
"Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times."
Read quote
6 likes
"God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature."
Read quote
6 likes
"Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe."
Read quote
6 likes
"I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together"
Read quote
6 likes
"For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing."
Read quote
6 likes
"It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being."
Read quote
6 likes
"Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make compromises, and say, "You can't have everything in life," which is what we always did? Or do they say, "I deserve more. I want to experience that thing and, you know, I have fifty more years to live than I used to." It's not necessarily that we have more desires today, but we do feel more entitled to pursue them. We live in this "right to happiness" culture, and yes, we do live half a century longer than we used to."
Read quote
6 likes
"I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships."
Read quote
6 likes
"The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people."
Read quote
6 likes
"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
Read quote
6 likes
"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."
Read quote
6 likes
"The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand."
Read quote
6 likes
"I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now."
Read quote
6 likes
"I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people."
Read quote
6 likes
"Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports."
Read quote
6 likes
"People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood."
Read quote
6 likes
"Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them."
Read quote
6 likes